Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-24
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
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Inc tuAao oriu saws tnAk inc
snow ct the head of Crooked river,
between Idaho City and the Silver
dissaic- is three feet deep, making
the ro-d imp. s-aJIe for teams
The Shoshone public schools have
been granted a vacation of Two weeks
uniil January End to allow the teach |
ers to attend the Teachers Institute.
TO be held at HALEY next week, and
ample time for the children to enjoy
their holiday festivities
mes.-Holiday week promises to
be lively for the AlDionites. There
are to be socials, dances, shooting
matches and frolics of all descriptions.
We hope to see for Inc time being. at
least, personal animosities set aside
and everybody join in an old-fashion-
ed, good-natured jubilee.
Independently. C. A Hoover
lectured in the Court House Friday
evsninS, under the auspices Of The
Bear Lake Academy. The subject
treated upon by the lecturer was
Physiology, and was the frst of q
series Of lectures the doctor has kind
ly consented 10 deliver during the
winter The lecturer was frequently
applauded and at the close was ten
dered vote of thanks.
Democrat-Col Robt S. Gardiner,
U. s. inspector Indian agencies, who
has inst completed an inspection of
the agencies in several western States
and all of the northwest and Pacific
States and Territories, reports that
the whole Indian service was never in
better condition than at present An
other feather in the cap of Cleveland's
administration.
News Minez-The railroad CON-
pany succeeded in enioining the as
SCISSOR and collector from collecting
the taxes assessed on its workshops
and machine-shops at Shoshone. The
company holds that the territorial
board of equalization in fixing the
amount per mile that each county
should assess the road and right-of.
way included all the properly of the
road, and that the county assessor
could not legally assess the shops, and
the Judge held to the same opinion
Herald-@0h, we folks up here
make money ON our sausage" is the
way HALEY sausage manufacturer
has often boasted TO Bellevue butch
ers. As this Haley man peddles
sausage in Bellevue, it viii not be
ont of place to mention that we have
. sample of his sausage in which po
tatoes figure as chief factor. Belle
yue. butchers say good sausage nevei
has potatoes in it, and the Bellevue
public should Hlook leedle Duet" O.
course, the HALEY man makes money
A double wedding was celebrated
In Shoshone last Thursday which wa
cut OF the ordinary run from the fac
that the two ladies interested wer
mother and daughter. The daughter
Miss Ellen Pons, is only Is years old
and the mother does not look grea
deal older than her daughter. Mr
Pons Ia the widow of the man VIII
was missing last summer, as Halle.
people will remembc-. Hep&ss throug
this city towaSus his home on Bi
Wood river near Shoshone, and wa
never seen alive again. After lon
search his body was found in th
river near the road. His horse wa
found with the saddle still ON him.
Cenr d'Alene Reoord-0nly abou
one hundred signels have been oil
tanned here TO the petition favoriA
annexation to Washington, and du
ing q period, too, when the count
seat has been full OF people from q
parts of the CGur d'Alene in a.tenC
ance at court. At Burke, the youns
est of the Coeur d'Aleue towns, pet
ton praying that there be no int
ference with the present boundaie
of the territory received over tw
hundred signatures. There is no que
ton but what the majority of th
people Gle averse 10 rushing Blind
into an alliance, the burdens of whic
would at present be many and th
benefits few.
Observation-Disclosures a theft wa
committed on Big Lost river com
time ago. The officers have lost a
trace of the william who did the az
and the matter is now given to th